Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Paperback, 2003)

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** STOCK IMAGE - COVER IMAGE SUPPLIED MAY VARY **. Paperback; English language; a fair reading copy; small amount of purple paint on spine.Author Name: Jeffrey Eugenides. Title: Middlesex. Publisher: Bloomsbury. Paperback; English language; a fair reading copy; small amount of purple paint on spine. Book Condition: Used; Acceptable. Good - Shows some signs of wear, may have an inscription or library markings inside but is in otherwise good intact condition.

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'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license records my first name simply as Cal.' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Mir to Prohibition era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Point, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is t like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

Author Biography

Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of The Virgin Suicides. He lives in Berlin.